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Visual Studio 2012 Update 1

December 18, 2012 | Mason Hymas

At the Visual Studio 2012 and .NET launch event in September S. Somasegar (Soma), Corporate Vice President of the Developer Division at Microsoft, talked about Microsoft’s strong commitment to delivering continuous value through their new approach for providing updates to Visual Studio on a regular cadence of shorter intervals. On November 26^th Soma announced the first of these updates to the already powerful Visual Studio 2012. Read More

Visual Studio 2012 New Features

September 14, 2012 | Kyle Fordrung

Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 provides a powerful new developer experience that enables developers to be more productive than ever before. It offers a comprehensive, highly flexible set of application lifecycle management (ALM) tools. With the introduction of Visual Studio 2012, Microsoft made significant changes to simplify the product line.

Microsoft 2012 Licensing Now Available!

September 7, 2012 | Kyle Fordrung

Microsoft has released some long-awaited new products this month, and they are all now available through licensing at SoftwareMedia.com! Windows Server 2012, Visual Studio 2012 and, yes, even Windows 8 are available through the Microsoft Open License Program!

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Save on Visual Studio Before Price Increase

August 24, 2012 | lisa

Microsoft is raising the prices on Visual Studio on September 1st in preparation for the upcoming release of Visual Studio 2012. If you want Visual Studio, now is the time to buy before the price increase in just a little over a week. Plus, some of the skus are on sale right now, such as Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio Ultimate with MSDN.

Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 Review

January 25, 2012 | Kyle Fordrung

Many organizations are constantly looking to address their business needs with flexible and scalable applications. In most cases, the time and resources necessary to build those applications are not always available.

Here’s the solution: Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 has the potential to meet these business needs.

Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 is a flexible development tool that helps developers to rapidly develop polished and fantastic business applications for the desktop as well as the Cloud.

Visual Studio 2010 New Features

December 10, 2011 | Mason Hymas

Find out what’s new in Visual Studio 2010 with Useful Screen Shots and Commentary.

Visual Studio (VS) is the Integrated Development Environment (IDE) from Microsoft. It is the main IDE for all sorts of platforms from Microsoft including Microsoft Windows, Windows Mobile, Windows CE, .NET Framework, .NET Compact Framework and Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Office Add-on developing and SharePoint. With it you can develop console and graphical user interface applications along with Windows Forms applications, web sites, web applications, and web services in both native code together with managed code (code that runs with garbage collector which provides immunity from memory leak). Read More

A Visual Studio 2010 Edition Comparison for the Multiple-Edition Afflicted

May 3, 2010 | Janae

Multiple-Edition Distinction for User to Specificate Affliction, or MEDUSA as it’s often referred (at least, at my desk anyway), is a serious affliction affecting many software users across the globe. With software companies throwing ambiguous words like Premium, Ultimate, Master, Basic, Starter, and Professional into their titles, we consumers have absolutely no idea what the difference between these versions actually is, other than syllable count.